Parental Stress and Scalp Hair Cortisol in Excessively Crying Infants: A Case Control Study.
Ineke de KruijffEllen TrompMijke P Lambregtse-van den BergArine M VliegerMarc A BenningaYolanda B de RijkeErica L T van den AkkerPublished in: Children (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Parents of ECIs showed significantly lower HCC than control parents, reflecting a diminished response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. More research is needed to examine whether this decrease in response is pre-existing or caused by excessive infant crying.
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